FURIA and Nemiga Gaming will meet in Saturday’s grand final after they won their respective semifinal matches at the PGL Masters Bucharest event Friday in Romania.
FURIA defeated MOUZ 2-1, while Nemiga blanked Team Vitality 2-0, ensuring the grand final would consist of two teams that needed to go all five rounds in the Swiss-system group stage to qualify for the playoffs.
MOUZ and Vitality will square off for third place Saturday before the main event.
The $1.25 million Counter Strike 2 event began with 16 teams in a Swiss-system format. The eight teams that reached three wins before taking three losses advanced to the single-elimination playoffs.
All matches are best-of-three until the best-of-five grand final on Saturday. The winning team will take home $450,000, with half going to the team and half to the players.
On Friday, FURIA prevailed 13-6 on Dust II, fell to MOUZ 13-9 on Mirage and bounced back to take Cache 13-9. Kazakhstan’s Danil “molodoy” Golubenko paced FURIA with 56 kills against just 37 deaths.
Nemiga edged Vitality 13-8 on Cache and 13-11 on Dust II. Russia’s Nikita “robo” Dushin led Nemiga with 46 kills versus just 27 deaths.
PGL Masters Bucharest prize pool with total prize money, player prize money and team share:
1. $450,000 ($225,000, $225,000)
2. $200,000 ($100,000, $100,000)
3. $137,500 ($68,750, $68,750)
4. $87,500 ($43,750, $43,750)
5-8. $50,000 ($25,000, $25,000) — BetBoom Team, Aurora Gaming, Natus Vincere, FUT Esports
9-11. $31,250 ($15,625, $15,625) — Team Liquid, Team Spirit, The MongolZ
12-14. $18,750 ($9,375, $9,375) — TYLOO, Legacy, DENDELE CS
15-16. $12,500 ($6,250, $6,250) — 9z Team, G2 Esports
–Field Level Media
